I think the map of commitments shows the Michigan brand impact. At the same time, I think it shows how hard it is to pull a kid away from his family and fan base. It takes a special player to venture out of his comfort zone…even if it’s in his best interest. I also think this map shows the need for the coaches to recruit locally. It’s very difficult to bring in kids from out of state, regardless of school and tradition.

It would be interesting to see the commitment map for each of the big 10 schools.

exactly what we will see from Hoke. National recruiting with an obvious emphasis on regional talent. The star levels of the reginal guys really stand out against what we saw the last few years (with a couple exceptions). I know I know...stars don't mean everything.

Garmon's the most likely alternative if Dunn doesn't work out but I wouldn't get my hopes up with Garmon. Hoping that we can just skip taking a RB this year if we can't get anyone on the board. Spend it on another d-tackle or a wideout.

I haven't really gotten deeply in to 2013 recruiting yet but two names I can think of are Dymonte Thomas and Ty Isaac. Thomas we know about-he's a kid who some people say is best in Ohio in the class, potential 5-star and favours Michigan. I'm still not sure if we're looking at him as a RB or a safety though. Isaac's from Illinois and already has offers from Illinois, NW and ND. We've already offered Thomas and I imagine we'll go after Isaac as well.waes Thweomas

when you look at recruits outside the midwest (first map) they we offered but didn't land almost all the schools that beat us were regional schools or at least schools that were closer to the recruit than we are. I think there are only one or two exceptions so far.

The point is that it's not that dissapointing or unexpected to say lose a California recruit to a PAC12 schools but it would be a more dissapointing to lose that same recruit to say ND or PSU. So far we haven't lost many of those battles which is a really good sign for recruiting nationally going forward.

You know I've actually trying to piece together our 2012 class, like break it down who and where we're targeting and what not. This will be much easier now, thanks! And it's just nice to have everything all together